Rumor: New iPhone to be called “iPhone Video?” — Further fueling the iPhone fire (try saying that one five times fast), TUAW has received an anonymous tip stating that AT&T's support website will be updated with “iPhone Video” as one of the model choices when choosing Apple as the phone manufacturer.

Rumor: New iPhone pictures leaked? — With the increasing evidence that a new iPhone may be just around the corner, we've seen our share of screenshots, speculations, and mock-ups. Now, the Italian iPhone blog iSpazio has posted pictures of what could possibly be the next iPhone (English Translations: here and here).

How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live — Evan Williams and Biz Stone of Twitter — The one thing you can say for certain about Twitter is that it makes a terrible first impression. You hear about this new service that lets you send 140-character updates to your “followers,” and you think, Why does the world need this, exactly?

Report: Steve Jobs “was one real sick guy” — Friday's Wall Street Journal carries a report on the state of Steve Jobs' health that makes his condition last January — before he went on a six month medical leave — sound more desperate than Apple (AAPL) let on at the time.

RIM quietly acquires Dash Navigation? — According to an article published yesterday by GPS Business News, RIM may have quietly acquired struggling nav/LBS firm Dash Navigation. The site's co-founder and Editor allegedly spoke to a trusted source who claims that the acquisition is a done deal.

Smart Motion Preview and SafeSearch — One of the things we noticed in looking at how customers use search is the number of times people clicked the Back button in their browser soon after clicking on a search result. When we dug into this, we found that people who clicked …

Palm Pre USB hack confirmed — A little birdie provided me with the following: — As I speculated in my previous blog post on Palm Pre Sync and now confirmed by the image above, when the Pre is in “Media Sync” mode it identifies itself as an Apple iPod. However, it's only the Mass Storage interface …

Apple working on adding multi-touch to iPod click-wheels — Having pioneered multi-touch for its iPhone and iPod touch handhelds, Apple later extended the technology to trackpads on its Mac notebook line and now appears ripe to introduce the first iPod click-wheels with similar capabilities.

Google's Wave of the future is genius, but will it work? — Five days is an eon in Internet time. Given the huge amounts of discussion that Google Wave has earned online since the company unveiled it in an 80-minute live demo last week (as I write this, it's the top of the 15th inning …

The Short Lifespan Of The iPhone — For the past several weeks, I've been noticing something about my iPhone: Severe slowness. I put it sleep and wake it back up, clear its memory (with an app), restart it and even sometimes manually reboot it — some of these methods alleviate the symptoms, sometimes.

Could social gaming run afoul of gambling laws? — A variety of social network gaming applications are making lots of money from virtual goods. But could these services soon find themselves in trouble for allowing gambling — and get slapped with large fines or other punishment?

Sony joins YouTube and Universal on Vevo video site — Universal Music Group and YouTube have answered the question of whether any of the major labels will be interested in joining the new all music video Web site, Vevo. — Sony Music Entertainment has joined the venture, the companies said Thursday in a statement.

Tony La Russa Is Not Laughing At Your Satire — Dugout genius Tony La Russa is suing Twitter, claiming he “suffered significant emotional distress” and “damage to his reputation” because of a fake La Russa account. Sheesh, can't the man take a few jokes about dead pitchers and drunk driving?